Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After excluding all but the 183 serious from the course, they held a lottery to knock out 90 more. And for those unlucky serious who might lose their chance to take the course, Thomas J.C. Raymond, professor of Business, Administration, will offer the course again this spring...
...offshore islands of network television. The new season has just been launched, and the vice presidents of programming are watching the skies. The winds can blow balmy in these weeks or the weather can turn cruel. The season is young enough for any new show even a thrice-cloned knock-off from an already enervated formula, to have a shot at success. At the same time, the season is far enough along-and computers, demographics and ratings systems so sophisticated-that storm clouds filled with cancellations are already gathering on the horizon...
Elimeter, who finished the game with 16 saves, did make several diving saves of Crimson shots. With 37-39 gone in the first period, however, she watched the Crimson's Brigitte Duffy knock the ball past her to up the score to 3-0 Landry provided the assist, her fifth in the last two games...
...Weaver. Yes, his Orioles consistently copped between 90 and 100 victories a year. Yes, they won one World Series, four American League pennants, and several more divisonal titles. And yes, his courageous Birds came back this season from a late seven and one-half game deficit to nearly knock off the high-flying Brewers...
...finally, there was the wit that put it all in perspective. Weaver had an uncanny ability to uncork a brutal one-liner that could knock baseball a little bit down from its high horse. "The only guy that didn't make a mistake," he once remarked to some second-guessers, "they crucified." His ability to laugh at himself and his sport was almost unrivalled in the self-important athletic world...